This is the thread where we ask people to dig up things on ILX we can't find

Thanks to your clever sleuthing, gabbneb, you've uncovered my status as an imposter of the original pillbox. The jig is up, then, I suppose.

well I took that pillbox, didn't I

hahaha that foodies thread

The key difference between food bores and other art bores is that their field of snobbery is a regularly repeated biological necessity, so it's much more likely to infringe on normal everyday life.

If you've got friends who're music bores, you can just avoid going to shows with them. Spend any time with a foodie and you'll find yourself being diverted twenty miles out of your way so you can be sure you're having only the most exquisite grilled cheese sandwich available in all of St. Louis, never mind that now you're late for the movie.

It's like hanging out with someone who refuses to urinate in anything but cut-glass goblets.

-- Stephen X (Stephen X), Wednesday, April 12, 2006 5:43 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Link

Both of these threads are good sources for finding old insanity:

THIS IS THE THREAD WHERE WE SUM UP ILX CLUSTERFUCK THREADS SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO READ THEM.
nominations for amazing ILX threads that are over 400+ posts and serve as a brilliant shining monument to the narcissism of small differences

Abbot, thanks for those. Def. hil-ar-i-ous. dan m, nice to know the origins of the wall-o-vag. Damn, that Photoshop "auto adjust color balance" version is.. I don't really have the proper adjective for that.

One more inquiry and I'll shut up: what is the title of the original Mari$$a thread?

probably deleted. there are others around though.

(I don't know where)

This one never fails:

Gear!'s new Craig's List experiment: men submitting haikus in hopes of random sex

yeah, that one!

Oh god, a simple ILX Search for "marissa" leads to the vortex of insanity. Proceed at your own risk.

Pillbox, the first one I remember is abusive comments, but in that original post she says that her name "comes up a lot on these boards", so I'm sure there are earlier ones.

the vortex of insanity - yeah, that's what I was hoping to avoid. A little marissa goes a long way, but I think it's worth looking at for the uninitiated.

Thanks people. I'll check these out / forward them to my girlie.

help me find the poll thread i started about how smart ILXors think they are, ranked by like the proportion of the population people thought they were smarter than

it's impossible to search for threads i started, as far as i can tell

How smart are you, relative to everyone else in the world?

thanks!

not the first Marissa thread but very close:

HELP ME I AM ADDICTED TO MARISSA MARCHANT

the thread where we made fun of this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why%27s_%28poignant%29_Guide_to_Ruby

truth bombs

Where is that goddamn mid-80's R&B thread (I thought it was a You Tube thread??) that had like Alexander O'Neal on it and shit. Where is that fucking thread?

thread where people made lots of puns on other musicians to turn their names into "wolf" band names, example: Wolfney Houston

probably not it, but maybe PICK ANOTHER F*CKING ANIMAL ALREADY!?

no not that one

already looked thru that thread

i really need the thread were we discussed the oasis video that had hilarious singing from liam

it was called something like "watch this film and tell me wtf is happening at the 4 minute mark"

or something

this is the video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipXqS0JnYz0

oops, haw

I remember someone posting a very good Slate or Salon piece about the section of the constitution that makes clear that there are additional rights beyond the constitution and that the constitution is basically not the be-all end-all. I think it may have been a gun control/second amendment thread.

anyone?! stanm?!!?!?!?!

the one i posted just above

on November 7 2006 you posted something that got Excelsiored last month, so maybe J0rdan S. knows?

i dunno, that's actually pretty LOL. maybe it could become my new default EXCELSIORbation fantasy.

someone help me out - it's for an important online argument?

roxy: the only mention of abominable, oasis and rappinghood is in that Excelsior thread, according to Google Search, so the original thread either doesn't exist anymore or it's de-indexed :-(

Hurting: can you look up a sentence or some specific words that are literally in that "section of the constitution that makes clear that there are additional rights beyond the constitution" ?

(more specifics = easier)

jesus!!!

somebody find the thread where morbz argues that norm macdonald is a homophobe

Roxy, found it!

Oasis - Classic or Dud?

(only found by guessing it was updated on or after May 9th, because J0rdan excelsiored it on that date - why can't ILX search or Google search find it?)

and thanks for the anyone?! stanm?!!?!?!?! ^_^

stanm u, as usual, are totally my fact checkin cuz

<3

why will no one find norm macdonald thread

its not either of the two threads with "norm macdonald" in the title

I mean it was about the 9th Amendment, I'm pretty sure, but there was just a link to an ARTICLE about the 9th Amendment

and what: not this, I suppose? (that's about letterman or o'reilly, but the thread also contains a link to a sketch where norm plays letterman - or something)

what is the trick to google search the posts that are skipped?

Hurting, could it be this Slate article? http://www.slate.com/id/2186750/ - (can't seem to find the discussion here at the moment, but maybe the article is what you need?)

xpost: huh? doesn't google search search complete threads?

i don't think it does.

Google is pretty crap at indexing long threads. Even if its spider navigated through the "Skipping x messages at this point. Click here if you want to view them all" page (which I'm not sure it does), Google only ever indexes the first 101K of a web page's text, so it will always miss stuff lower down.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that Google doesn't search any messages hidden in those middle "Skipping" sections. And since ILX Search only searches thread titles, there's no way to search for things in those gaps.

why will no one find norm macdonald thread
Here it is:
The Daily Show

Please point me in the direction of the thread dedicated to photos of eerie abandoned buildings, amusement parks and other various spectacles of urban decay.